Pam Allyn

Award-winning educator Allyn offers parents and caregivers essential advice on choosing appropriate titles for their children--taking into account a child's age, attention ability, gender, and interests--along with techniques for reading aloud effectively.

The Books and Stories to Read with Your Child and All the Best Times to Read Them

What to Read when

Ernest Morrell

Learn how to increase students' skills as writers and storytellers with an innovative, inclusive, and empowering framework for teaching writing that centers student voice. Tell Your Story: Teaching Students to Become World-Changing Thinkers and Writers explores how to help students see themselves as writers and storytellers who are developing the skills and techniques to communicate in ways that resonate with various audiences. When students make that shift and see themselves as active and valued participants in their own communities, cultures, and literary journeys, they become powerful writers eager to explore and share ideas. With the strategies in this book, you can * Create an environment of belonging that fosters creativity and confidence. * Demonstrate the value of oral and visual storytelling. * Teach story structure, both old and new and in a variety of genres. * Offer a variety of role models and exemplars through mentor texts. * Assess and confer with student writers to help them improve their skills. * Value students' voices as future agents of change. When you help students unlock the stories they want to tell, you'll see writing anxieties and resistance fade as students come alive to the multitude of ways in which they can make their voices heard. Storytelling can be a wellness practice, a tool for empowerment, and a method for self-understanding and self-expression. For all students, storytelling is a path to lifelong learning and to realizing the full power of their voice and their potential to change the world.

Teaching Students to Become World-Changing Thinkers and Writers

Tell Your Story

Patty Vitale-Reilly

Grade-specific books that take all the guesswork out of teaching reading and writing. Each book provides a detailed curricular calendar tied to a developmental continuum and the standards. Includes monthly units of study that integrate reading and writing so both work together to provide maximum support for students. The units are organized around four essential components, process, genre, strategy, and conventions, addressing everything students need to know about reading and writing. Packed with ready-to-use lessons that offer exemplary teaching and continuous assessment. Features a flexible framework that shows how to frame a year of teaching, a unit, and a lesson-all easily adapted to fit the unique needs and interests of students at all levels of learning.

Daily Lessons, Monthly Units, Yearlong Calendar. Grade 2

The Complete Year in Reading and Writing

Monica Burns

This professional resource equips K-12 students with the skills they need to be critical readers in the 21st century. Today's reader is reading across multiple genres, on phones and tablets, with text in hand, and also online, and this helpful book provides educators with techniques on how to teach students to read on every platform and in every genre, to struggle with text, and to break through to new ideas when reading text. It focuses on the habits that students must form in order to gain the confidence to access all texts across all platforms. Each chapter is devoted to developing the five habits for successful reading: reading closely, widely, critically, deeply, and purposefully. Grounded in the latest research, the easy-to-implement strategies and instructional methods will help students cultivate strong reading skills in the 21st century classroom.

Taming the Wild Text: Literacy Strategies for Today's Reader

An illuminating resource to help parents foster a love of writing in their child's life--filled with writing prompts, engaging home learning activities, and more. New educational research reveals that writing is as fundamental to a child's development as reading. But though there are books that promote literacy, no book guides parents in helping their child cultivate a love of writing. In this book, Pam Allyn, a nationally recognized educator and literacy expert, reminds us that writing is not only a key skill but also an essential part of self-discovery and critical to success later in life. Allyn offers the "the five keys" to help kids WRITE-Word Power, Ritual, Independence, Time, and Environment-along with fun, imaginative prompts to inspire and empower children to put their thoughts on the page. A groundbreaking blueprint for developing every child's abilities, Your Child's Writing Life teaches parents how to give a gift that will last a lifetime.

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